From: Christian Borntraeger <kernel@borntraeger.net>
To: Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: request: capabilities that allow users to drop privileges further
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:34:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312152334.12312.kernel@borntraeger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031215213912.GA29281@codeblau.de>
Felix von Leitner wrote:
> I would like to be able to drop capabilities that every normal user has,
> so that network servers can limit the impact of possible future security
> problems further. For example, I want my non-cgi web server to be able
> to drop the capabilities to
>
> * fork
> * execve
> * ptrace
> * load kernel modules
> * mknod
> * write to the file system
You can have a look at
http://lsm.immunix.org/ and
http://lsm.immunix.org/lsm_modules.html
if there is something that fits your need.
If not, feel free to write a security module, that is able to do just what
you want. ;-)
cheers
Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-15 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-15 21:39 request: capabilities that allow users to drop privileges further Felix von Leitner
2003-12-15 22:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-15 22:55 ` Christian Borntraeger
2003-12-16 14:08 ` Martin Waitz
2003-12-15 22:34 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2003-12-15 22:48 ` Chris Wright
2003-12-16 14:13 ` Martin Waitz
2003-12-17 1:30 ` Felix von Leitner
2003-12-17 1:41 ` Chris Wright
2003-12-16 13:27 ` James Morris
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